November 24, 2012

Duke Beats Duke

Miami Head Coach Al Golden

On the win: “We’ve given up a lot. We gave up a bowl game last year. We’ve given up a bowl game this year, now we’ve given up a postgame in Charlotte, a championship game in Charlotte. We’ve given up three games in the postseason to right the ship and [we’re] really grateful to the team and the seniors. I’m not surprised it was this type of game. I just told the team, it was such an emotional week. If you think about the range of emotions on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and then when [Duke] came storming back and just the way they did it … you know with a 99-yard play. I felt like, ‘Oh man, now we got respond. Do we have enough in us in the tank to respond?’ And then Herb [Waters] came back with a big play. I’m proud of them. As I said in the beginning of the year, it wasn’t going to be perfect. We were picked to finish fifth in the league. We didn’t have anybody on the preseason all-conference team. We didn’t have many starters coming back. We had the toughest schedule, too. We started 10 freshmen this year and played 21, and we just finished tied for the Coastal lead. And [we’ve] got a whole slew of guys coming back. I’m excited. Can’t wait to go back on the road and sign a real good class to compliment last year’s class and move this thing forward.”

On Duke Johnson:

“He’s a special young man. He works hard and he wants the ball in his hands at the end of the game. With the entire offensive line coming back and the tight ends coming back and the full back coming back and the quarterback’s coming back and the receivers coming back … I think he’s going tobenefit from that greatly. The whole supporting cast is coming back and we’re going to add to it and get ourselves better. Duke’s a special young man.”

On what he said to the seniors:

“Just how grateful we are. What a huge sacrifice when you think about it. They didn’t ask for it. They led us all week. This was tough. Don’t diminish for a second how hard it is to get the guys motivated and focused after … entering the Duke week we thought, ‘We win we’re in Charlotte,’and then that got pulled. We needed that senior leadership and the seniors did. I thought they represented the program and the university with class - incredible amount of integrity. [They] didn’t displace anything on anybody else. [They] didn’t point the finger, years past or anything. It’s a credit to them that we won today because emotionally we didn’t have much in the tank.”

On using trick plays:

“When you have a quarterback and a veteran offensive line you can do that. We became very veteran as the year went on on the offensive line. The same thing at the quarterback position. We’re getting to the point where those two plays … we wanted to go for the jugular on 4th-and-1. Obviously we all thought it was a touchdown and disappointed it wasn’t. You go for it there because you think, even if you don’t get it you’re going to get the ball back at midfield. Or even if they do change the field it’s going to take five minutes. Instead it takes 10 seconds. That’s a backbreaker there. With the wind I thought for sure Jake [Wieclaw] could end the game there. I think we were up by 14, so to make it 17. And we went for the win twice and it didn’t work out. It’s just one of those deals. We’re not good enough to put anybody away yet. Again, I’m just encouraged about moving the program forward.”

Comments

Btw you guys cane knock the whole "Guys came from Temple" but go look who Jimmy was before he came to UM OSU was not what it is today...which is still not a "great program btw" and go look where Dennis came from oh and Butch go see how much HC jobs he had before he came here. Get over the temple thing... thats how UM hires and will always hire! Its nothing new.

TEAM NOTES
• Today’s offensive starters: WR Herb Waters, LT Malcolm Bunche, LG Jon Feliciano, C Shane McDermott, RG Brandon Linder, RT Seantrel Henderson, TE Clive Walford, QB Stephen Morris, FB Mike James, RB Duke Johnson, WR Phillip Dorsett.
• Today’s defensive starters: DE Anthony Chickillo, DT Curtis Porter, DT Olsen Pierre, DE Shayon Green, OLB Thurston Armbrister, MLB James Gaines, OLB Gionni Paul, CB Tracy Howard, S Rayshawn Jenkins, S Kacy Rodgers II, CB Brandon McGee.
• With DB Tracy Howard starting today, Miami started 10 different freshmen this season (DB Deon Bush, DB Tracy Howard, RB Duke Johnson, WR Malcolm Lewis, DB
Rayshawn Jenkins, LB Eddie Johnson, DL Corey King, DL Earl Moore, OL Ereck Flowers, WR Herb Waters). Johnson and Corey are redshirt freshmen.
• The Canes had a different starting lineup on defense all 12 games this season.
• With the win, the Hurricanes take a share of the ACC Coastal Division for the fi rst time since joining the league in 2004. The Canes were picked fi fth in the preseason poll.
• Miami won its fi nal game of the season for the fi rst time since defeating Nevada at the MPC Computers Bowl on Dec. 31, 2006.
• The Hurricanes improve to 9-1 all-time against Duke and are undefeated against the Blue Devils since joining the ACC in 2004. UM has won all fi ve meetings in Durham.
• UM had fi ve touchdown drives that lasted under two minutes.
• Miami scored at least 40 points for the third consecutive game and for the sixth time this season.
• Miami’s 52 points were the most scored since a 52-17 win over Virginia on Nov. 7, 2009.
• The Hurricanes 646 yards of total offense was the third-most in program history and the most since totaling 689 yards against UCLA on Dec. 5, 1998.
• Duke’s 45 points tie record for most points by an opponent in a loss matching Virginia Tech (2002)
INDIVIDUAL NOTES
• RB Mike James and DB Vaughn Telemaque each saw action for the Hurricanes for the 50th time in their careers today

Why would he talk about the defense? It's obvious there's a problem but why would any coach throw one of his coordinators under the bus during a presser just to satisfy the delusional blogging community?
It's the same reason he wouldn't throw a player under the bus when they crap the bed. Wieclaw missed 5 costly kicks this year and Golden never threw him under the bus. It's a Fing game played by 18 year old kids and watched by delusional drunken couch potatoes.
We would be lucky a week from now if this entire staff hasn't moved to Knoxville, or "not so" Happy Valley, or any other college town that offers more support and money.
Thanks for the blog and all your hard work Soup!
Go 'canes!

Vegas was right again they had our Canes pegged for a 7-5 season. Thanks to the Seniors for their leadership and to the underclassmen who bought into the process. We all wanted our Canes to win more games but this team definitely made progress and we can look forward to the offseason and the 2013 Canes season on August 31st against FAU. Go Canes.

He should talk about how weak the D is because he's the Head Coach, and he's supposed to hold his staff accountable.

I have never said throw a player under the bus. But talking about team weaknesses should not be seen as throwing people under the bus. These guys are making obscene amounts of money compared to most of us on this blog. (Not SEC money mind you, but still enough to where if they don't perform, they need to be replaced.)

Again, I don't in a million years see it happening... AG is NOT going to replace his "buddy"... It's just a shame... cause we could be a contender with just a middle of the pack defense... (Instead of bottom of the barrel.)

Mike James will be a millionaire before the Canes play their next football game, hard for me to feel sorry for a class guy that's going to be successful at anything he does way after his college days are a memory.

Our offense will be at the top of almost every ACC offensive category next season. We will go about 9-3 and still not be a top 20 ranked defense.

Bush is going to become what we thought Ray Ray already was.

Duke is already more than we thought Lamar was.

TCU has as many or more freshmen and sophomores playing than we do and none of them are as talented as our guys.
Patterson never blamed his losses on having to play so many freshmen just to make his coaching staff look better.

Our guys never quit once this year.
Our Defense never rose above one hundred in the nation with 3/4 of the season left to improve.

Duke IS a tough place to play if you have Mr. Magoo running your defense.

Monty, I'm feeling dirty as hell because I'm cheering for USC to pull the upset and Florida to beat the SEC champ for another illegitimate national title, if it's over Georgia better IMO. Yes 5 will still be > 4 but it also puts Al on notice since he basically took over the same situation at Gaineshell as Muschump did and it's now time to produce or get lost since he has a major advantage as a head coach from experience's standpoint.

Wanting gayturds to win an NC is wrong, I can't understand why a Canes fan would want that. It hurts in so many ways. Have you lost your mind?

Your hatred of a Golden is so irrational that you want turds winning NC's because it makes Golden look bad. Sickening. I hate the gators way more than anybody, and to me, as much as I hate the domers, its no contest. Gayturd hatred is in a REAL canes fan DNA

I could care less about Golden or DNo really. Golden might best be served by firing him, but we don't get to make that decision. Who knows maybe he does fire him, but I wouldn't bet a lot of money.

Golden just happens to be our HC so I'll support him until I think he can't get it done. The jury is still out, but I haven't thrown in the towel like you.

I still can't believe you want to UiF to win an NC. That's a testament to your lack of character as a Canes fan. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you're lacking character as a person, but just as a canes fan.

You're so excited about what Al's building you don't even know who's on the schedule next year in week 2?

Ok I get it. No I don't need or want turds winning an NC so we can say we played the NC winner week 2. Check my DNA, I'm all canes through and trough. Real canes don't want turds to win NC's. Ask Chick, or Duke, or Kehoe or any other blood cane

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I lack caring how my personal preference of who other than Miami gets a national title makes you feel, but I'm just saying I lack caring on how it makes you feel as a Caneitis.

Now I'm hoping Georgia wins it Caneitis FYI. I threw in the towel on UM this season right after the . . . Notre Dame game.

Ok I get it. No I don't need or want turds winning an NC so we can say we played the NC winner week 2. Check my DNA, I'm all canes through and trough. Real canes don't want turds to win NC's. Ask Chick, or Duke, or Kehoe or any other blood cane

Posted by: Caneitis | November 24, 2012 at 11:33 PM

You got that right! I support The U and anyone who plays UF!
UF has never won an outright title where they didn't get a "do over" or help from a computer. I would've puked if they got into the NC without playing for their conference title.

Good to see you Solar. And that link to Barry Jackson's colum,n is scary- both in terms of what D'Onofrio is saying we have and what we actually do have. If we really are in contention for those JC DT's then I can see some real improvement (it's nearly impossible not to improve from 117, I mean real 3 and outs, something less than 60% 3rd and long conversions by opponents, sacks, etc.).
Looking at the schedule- Out of Conference games include @ FAU, @USF, UF, and presumably a 1AA SCHOOL. We should go 3-1.
In conference: @UNC, FSU, Va. Tech, and maybe Pitt/Syracuse (NC State was scheduled, but this may change with the new teams). Home: UVA, Ga. Tech, Duke, and Wake if they keep the current schedule. I'd like to say we can go 6-2, but we have this annoying habit of losing 1-2 games we shouldn't. We'll see.

That's what Lane Kiffin said, oops my bad I forgot that didn't work out for him lol. Also recruiting sites ranked duke #10 rb, so that means that they predicted 9 other rb's were better, how did that work out?

Don't remember. I was watching some Miami clips and saw solarcanevideos. Checked them out on play tube. Writing with a friend
who played lead for David Allen Coe for years. His band played at my bar
After he split with Coe.